Tag Archive for ‘west coast’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'west coast'

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Deadline: 05 December 2008.

A world free from 9/11s and tsunamis?

on September 12, 2008

Exactly seven years from yesterday (still today to some), early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. Another group of hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. A fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93, whose ultimate target was either the United States Capitol or White House, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The rest, as we say, is history.

What 9/11 was to the West, ‘the’ tsunami was to the South. Caught unaware, more than 225,000 lives…

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Tags: Alberta, Asia, Boston, Boxing Day, Colombo, communication technologies, conventional fixed wireless telephones, Gordon Gow, hazard alert systems, India, Indonesia, International Development Research Centre, Java, LIRNEasia, Los Angeles, mobile phones, Newark, Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Peter Anderson, public network, remote alarm device, SAN FRANCISCO, satellite radio, satellite technology, Shanksville, Simon Fraser University, South Towers, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan government, Thailand, United States Capitol, University of Alberta, Very Small Aperture Terminal, VSAT, west coast, White House, World Trade Center.

Tsunami alert wasn’t needed, says NDWC

Chanuka Wattegama

on September 14, 2007

The National Disaster Warning centre (NDWC) Thailand, has defended its decision not to issue an early tsunami alert after the 8.4-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Wednesday evening. Instead, the NDWC made a broadcast three hours later telling people there was no cause for alarm. Centre chairman Smith Dharmasarojana said yesterday the delay was based on a thorough analysis of the situation.

The NDWC decided against a sudden TV broadcast to warn people about a possible tsunami because it predicted the quake, which struck about 6.10pm, would not cause giant waves in Thailand. The NDWC’s broadcast three hours after the first quake was mainly aimed at calming people down.

He said the centre followed warning procedures correctly, including sending 2,800 short messages…

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Tags: Indonesia, mobile phones, National Disaster Warning Centre, Pacific Ocean, Smith Dharmasarojana, Sumatra island, Thailand, west coast.

Thai tsunami buoy helps Sri Lanka at expense of Phuket

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 23, 2007

Straight talk from the head of Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center. This is even more reason for Sri Lanka to improve its national and last-mile warning systems.

Phuket Gazette - online English newspaper for Phuket, Thailand, with daily news, classified ads, yellow pages, business listings, upcoming events, event calendar, phuket events

Because of its location, the lone tsunami direct detection buoy deployed last month in the middle of the Indian Ocean would offer little advance warning to Phuket in the event of another tsunami generated off the Indonesian Coast, Dr Smith Dharmasaroja, head of the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) in Nonthaburi, has told the Gazette.Dr Smith said that the location of the first buoy was chosen so that it would provide equal benefit to all Indian…

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Tags: Andaman Coast, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Indonesian Coast, last-mile warning systems, National Disaster Warning Center, Phuket, Smith Dharmasaroja, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Thailand\'s National Disaster Warning Center, west coast.

Build it, but will they come?

Rohan Samarajiva

on November 6, 2006

Maldives is a country with a population of around 300,000, around 32,000 fixed phones and around 232,000 mobiles [this has to level off, because pretty much the entire population is now using mobiles].

It has a lot of high-end hotel rooms, but the USP of the tourist industry there is not business travel, it is utter and complete relaxation. And relaxed people are not known to generate lots of data and voice traffic.

All this is relevant to the question of what will go through the two cables landing in Maldives by 2007. Reliance/FLAG is already live, I believe.
Maldives did not switch to education in Dhivehi like Sri Lanka did, and as a result they have a significant population of young people ready to work in BPOs.…

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Tags: Ascension Islands, business travel, Colombo, data and voice traffic, Dhiraagu Telecom, Gigabit, Madagascar, Maldives, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, USD, west coast.

Sarvodaya Monitored Tsunami Drill

Indi Samarajiva

on June 5, 2006

By Nuwan Waidyanatha

The Hazard Information Hub (HIH), operated by Sarvodaya as part of the Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination Project (HazInfo) to disseminate Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) risk information to the villages in Sri Lanka, monitored the recent tsunami drills conducted in the Pacific by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in the USA. The HazInfo project initiated by LIRNEasia, is a multipartner initiative aimed at tackling the “last-mile” challenges in developing an all-hazards approach to disaster management and mitigation.

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Tags: Department of Meteorology, GUI, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, International Tsunami Information Center, Pacific Ocean, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Sarvodaya, simulation, Sri Lanka, United States, web interface, web-product, west coast, West Coast-Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, XML.

First Phase of HazInfo Project Completed

Indi Samarajiva

on May 19, 2006

The first phase of the Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination (HazInfo) project funded by IDRC, was completed recently with the training of trainer component. LIRNEasia is implementing this project along with its project partners Sarvodaya, the largest community organization in Sri Lanka and TVE Asia Pacifi c (TVEAP), a non-profit media organization working in the Asian region.

LIRNEasia has undertaken a number of initiatives in the area of ICTs disasters and early warning post the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of 2004. However, this is by far the largest project undertaken LIRNEasia in this area to evaluate the suitability of a number of ICTs (information and communication technologies) deployed in varied conditions for their effectiveness in the last-mile of a hazard warning system.

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Tags: Bandaragama, Buddhist Temple, Colombo, communication technologies, Dialog Telekom\'s University of Moratuwa Mobile Communi, early warning systems, GSM, Indian Ocean, last-mile hazard warning technologies, Mile Hazard Dissemination, non-profit media organization working, Panama, Sarvodaya, Sarvodaya Development Center, Sarvodaya\'s Development Educational Center, Shanthi Sena Peace Brigade, Sri Lanka, Technology Partners, Thalpitiya, Thalpitya, the Indian Ocean tsunami, Vanguard Foundation, Wadduwa, west coast.

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